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36 S.Ct. 410
60 L.Ed. 825
SOUTHERN EXPRESS COMPANY, Plff. in Err.,
No. 201.
Submitted March 2, 1916.
Decided April 3, 1916.
Messrs. Julius C. Martin, Thomas S. Rollins, George H. Wright, and Robert C. Alston for plaintiff in error.
No brief was filed for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice McReynolds delivered the opinion of the court:
Claiming damages solely on account of mental anguish occasioned by failure promptly to deliver a casket and grave clothes intended for his wife's burial, and accepted by plaintiff in error with knowledge of the facts at Asheville, North Carolina, for transportation to Hickory Grove, South Carolina, Byers recovered a judgment against it for $250, and this was affirmed by the supreme court of North Carolina. 165 N. C. 542, 81 S. E. 741.
In defense the Express Company averred: That while engaged in interstate commerce it received the described articles at Asheville and transported them to Hickory Grove; that, as required by act of Congress approved June 29, 1906 [34 Stat. at L. 584, chap. 3591, Comp. Stat. 1913, § 8563], and amendments, it had filed a schedule of rates with the Interstate Commerce Commission; that at time of shipment it issued a bill of lading limiting liability to $50; that it had paid the shipper the full amount expended by him in purchasing the articles; that no present liability exists, and especially under the laws of the United States it is not responsible for such damages as those specified.
There was put in evidence a duly executed receipt for $64.17, 'being in full payment for one coffin delivered to Southern Express Company at Asheville, North Carolina, on April 1st, 1912, by John Byers, to be shipped to Sarah Moore, Hickory Grove, South Carolina;' and Byers testified that 'the Southern Express Company paid him for all the money he had paid out on the casket and other things contained in the shipment, but did not pay him anything for damages.' The bill of lading was also introduced. It specified no value and undertook to restrict the carrier's liability to $50. Clause 1 is copied in the margin.1 Objection was sustained to a seasonable offer by the company to prove its schedules of rates on file with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Manifestly the shipment was interstate commerce; and, under the settled doctrine established by our former opinions, rights and liabilities in connection therewith depend upon acts of Congress, the bill of lading and common-law principles accepted and enforced by the Federal courts. In order to determine the validity and effect of restrictions upon liability contained in such bills, it is important, if not indeed essential, to consider the applicable schedules Exp. Co. v. Croninger, 226 U. S. 491, 57 L. Exp. Co. v. Croninger, 220 U. S. 491, 57 L. ed. 314, 44 L.R.A.(N.S.) 257, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 148; Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. Miller, 226 U. S. 513, 57 L. ed. 323, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 155; Chicago, St. P. M. & O. R. Co. v. Latta, 226 U. S. 519, 57 L. ed. 328, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 155; Wells, F. & Co. v. Neiman-Marcus Co. 227 U. S. 469, 57 L. ed. 600, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 267; Kansas City Southern R. Co. v. Carl, 227 U. S. 639, 57 L. ed. 683, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 391; Missouri, K. & T. R. Co. v. Harriman, 227 U. S. 657, 57 L. ed. 690, 33 Sup. Ct. Rep. 397; Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. v. Cramer, 232 U. S. 490, 58 L. ed. 697, 34 Sup. Ct. Rep. 383; Boston & M. R. Co. v. Hooker, 233 U. S. 97, 58 L. ed. 868, L.R.A.1915B, 450, Ann. Cas. 1915D, 593; George M. Pierce Co. v. Wells, F. & Co. 236 U. S. 278, 59 L. ed. 576, 35 Sup. Ct. Rep. 351; New York, P. &. N. R. Co. v. Peninsula Produce Exch. 240 U. S. 34, 60 L. ed. , 36 Sup. Ct. Rep. 230.
It was plain error to exclude the rate schedules.
Having been requested in apt time, the trial court refused to charge the jury as follows: 'As the shipment which is alleged to have been delayed was a shipment in interstate commerce, and as the damage claimed by the plaintiff is damage for mental suffering only on account of the delay of the delivery of said shipment, the court instructs the jury that under the evidence in this case the plaintiff is not entitled to recover any such damage; the jury is therefore directed to render a verdict for the defendant.' This instruction should have been given.
The action is based upon a claim for mental suffering only, nothing else was set up and the proof discloses no other injury for which compensation had not been made. In such circumstances as those presented here, the long-recognized common-law rule permitted no recovery; the decisions to this effect 'rest upon the elementary principle that mere mental pain and anxiety are too vague for legal redress where no injury is done to person, property, health, or reputation.' Cooley, Torts, 3d ed. page 94. The lower Federal courts, almost without exception, have adhered to this doctrine, and in so doing we think they were clearly right upon principle and also in accord with the great weight of authority. Chase v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 10 L.R.A. 464, 44 Fed. 554; Crawson v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 47 Fed. 544; Wilcox v. Richmond & D. R. Co. 17 L.R.A. 804, 3 C. C. A. 73, 8 U. S. App. 118, 52 Fed. 264; Tyler v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 54 Fed. 634; Kester v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 55 Fed. 603; Western U. Teleg. Co. v. Wood, 21 L.R.A. 706, 6 C. C. A. 432, 13 U. S. App. 317, 57 Fed. 471; Gahan v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 59 Fed. 433; McBride v. Sunset Teleph. Co. 96 Fed. 81; Stansell v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 107 Fed. 668; Western U. Teleg. Co. v. Sklar, 61 C. C. A. 281, 126 Fed. 295; Alexander v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 126 Fed. 445; Rowan v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 149 Fed. 550; Western U. Teleg. Co. v. Burris, 102 C. C. A. 386, 179 Fed. 92; Kyle v. Chicago, R. I. & P. R. Co. 105 C. C. A. 151, 182 Fed. 613. But see Beasley v. Western U. Teleg. Co. 39 Fed. 181.
In So Relle v. Western U. Teleg. Co. (1881) 55 Tex. 308, 40 Am. Rep. 805, the supreme court of Texas held the addressee of a message might recover damages of a telegraph company because of mere mental suffering. Subsequently the courts of Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee approved and enforced a like rule; those of Dakota, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia, and West Virginia definitely rejected the innovation. Many of the pertinent cases are reviewed in Western U. Teleg. Co. v. Chouteau (1911) 28 Okla. 664, 115 Pac. 879, Ann. Cas. 1912D, 824, 3 N. C. C. A. 879, 49 L.R.A.(N.S.) 206, and note; the general subject is discussed and the authorities cited in Sutherland on Damages, 3d ed. §§ 975 et seq., Sedgwick on Damages, 9th ed. §§ 43 et seq., and Shearman & Redfield on Negligence, 6th ed. §§ 756 et seq.
The judgment of the court below must be reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
And it is so ordered.
Mr. Justice McKenna and Mr. Justice Holmes concur in the result.
1. In consideration of the rate charged for carrying said property which is regulated by the value and classification thereof and is based upon a valuation of not exceeding $50 for any shipment of 100 pounds or less, and not exceeding 50 cents per pound for any shipment in excess of 100 pounds, unless a greater value is declared at time of shipment, the shipper agrees that the company shall not be liable in any event for more than fifty dollars ($50) on any shipment of 100 pounds or less, and for not exceeding 50 cents per pound on a shipment weighing more than 100 pounds, and said property is valued at, and the liability of this company is hereby limited to, the value above stated, unless a greater value is declared at the time of shipment, and the charge for value paid or agreed to be paid therefor; and in case of partial loss or damage the company shall not be liable for more than such proportion of the same as $50 if 100 pounds or less in weight, or 50 cents per pound if weight exceeds 100 pounds, or the value declared bears to the actual value if greater.
If the said property is offered for shipment under the special rates named in sections 'D' and 'E' of the existing Official Express Classification, it is agreed that the value of the same does not exceed ten dollars ($10) per package, said rates not applying on packages of greater value.


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NEW: After her arrest, Gliedman gives birth to a daughter, a police official says
Morgan Gliedman and Aaron Greene are charged with felony possession of an explosive
Authorities say they found the explosive while serving warrants on Gliedman
A collection of pages labeled "The Terrorist Encyclopedia" also was found, police say
A New York City man and woman have been arrested in Manhattan, accused of possession of an explosive substance and a sawed off shotgun, authorities say.
The pair also had a document that appears to be titled "The Terrorist Encyclopedia," according to court documents.
Aaron Greene, 31, and Morgan Gliedman, 27, are charged with felony possession of an explosive with intent to use, and felony criminal possession of a weapon, the district attorney's office said.
Shortly after her arrest, Gliedman went into labor and gave birth to a daughter, whom she named Melody, according to Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne.
Police say officers discovered the explosive substance at the couple's Greenwich Village apartment while serving a warrant related to four counts of felony grand larceny against Gliedman involving credit card theft in February.
In addition to a plastic container found in the living room containing "a white powdery substance," officers also found the sawed-off shotgun and multiple rounds of ammunition, police said.
There also were numerous written items containing instructions on making explosive materials and bombs, police said, including the collection of pages that had a cover page saying "the terrorist encyclopedia."
Fearing the substance to be an explosive material, police evacuated several buildings in the area Saturday morning.
Sgt. Michael DeMarfio of the New York Police Department Bomb Squad later tested the powdery substance and confirmed that it was 7 grams of hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, which, according to court documents, is a highly explosive substance used in bombs.
According to her Facebook account, Gliedman has an impressive educational pedigree. She claims to have attended The Dalton School, an Upper East Side Manhattan private prep school; the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University; and the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing.
Police said Greene has had four prior run-ins with law enforcement, including a 2005 assault case for which he was sentenced to a year in jail and an arrest in February for alleged possession of a rifle, heroin, marijuana, prescription drugs and drug paraphernalia. On the latter occasion, Gliedman also was arrested and charged, police said.
According to the district attorney's office, Greene was arraigned Sunday afternoon and has a Friday court date. Gliedman is awaiting arraignment.
Greene's attorney, Lisa Pelosi, declined to comment Monday morning.

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The Sharpie mug DIYs have been done several times, and I always see them and love the idea, but don't believe they actually hold up. So I put them to the test!
I picked up some inexpensive mugs & bowls, and some Sharpie permanent markers. I grabbed the typical black, a couple metallics, and a pack of silver & gold oil based markers.
I doodled away, popped them all in the oven at 350 for 30 min, let them cool fully, then soaped up a sponge and got to washing. Here are the results….
Typical black marker: Fail
Mix of typical black and metallic: No good
Oil based metallics: ding ding!
We have a winner!
One little tip, if you're nervous to try this out because you might make a mistake… have no fear! Just put a little rubbing alcohol on a cloth and wipe away your booboos. As long as you fix it before baking, it's all good! I found this to work for both the regular and oil based sharpies.
** I would never recommend using the markers on any surface that will come in contact with food or your mouth. I was sure to keep my designs away from the lip of my mugs, and I highly suggest you do the same!
** With washing I thoroughly scrubbed my mugs, but was sure to be more on the gentle side when washing over top of my designs.


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Wilfrid Ewart:
An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Creator: | Ewart, Wilfrid, 1892-1922 | |
Title: | Wilfrid Ewart Collection | |
Dates: | 1907-1967 | |
Extent: | 2 document boxes, 1 scrapbook, 1 oversize folder (OSF) (0.95 linear feet) | |
Abstract: | The Wilfrid Ewart Collection consists of materials accumulated by John Gawsworth (Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong) for his posthumous volumes of Ewart's writing. These materials include a small number of typescripts and manuscripts by Ewart, research notes, copies of Ewart's correspondence with his family, clippings and copies of Ewart's published articles (often with corrections in Gawsworth's hand), and Gawsworth's own emended drafts of writings by Ewart. Also present are clippings about Ewart and a scrapbook containing reviews of and articles about Gawsworth's volumes of Ewart's writing. The collection is arranged in three series: I. Works, 1907-1967; II. Correspondence and Works by Others, 1924-1967; and III. Scrapbook and Clippings, 1912-1937. | |
Call Number: | Manuscript Collection MS-01347 | |
Language: | English |
Access: | Open for research |
Administrative Information
Acquisition: | Purchase, 1968 (R4350) | |
Processed by: | Elspeth Healey, 2010 |
Repository: |
Biographical Sketch
Wilfrid Ewart, 1892-1922 | ||
World War I novelist and essayist Wilfrid Herbert Gore Ewart (1892-1922) was born on May 19, 1892. His father, Herbert Brisbane Ewart, came from a noted military family and served as comptroller to the widow of a Russian nobleman. His mother, Lady Mary "Molly" Ewart, was of aristocratic birth, the youngest daughter of the third Earl of Arran. Despite growing up in the fashionable neighborhood of Belgravia in London, Ewart did not have an easy childhood. He was blind in one eye and had poor eyesight in the other. Moreover, though his father was supportive, his mother would at times fly into rages. For this reason, Ewart and his younger sisters, Angela and Betty, were often sent to stay at the home of their mother's cousin in Buckinghamshire. At nine, Ewart was sent to St. Aubyn's boarding school in Rottingdean, Sussex. There, he grew introverted and acutely sensitive to criticism. He was next educated by a private tutor in Bournemouth before, at the age of fourteen, going to learn of agriculture at a Bottisham farm in the Cambridge fens. | ||
At Bottisham, Ewart began to write about the English rural life around him and developed a love for the writings of Thomas Hardy. While still in his teens, he became one of the country's leading experts on hens. He collaborated with John Stephen Hicks on a book titled The Possibilities of Modern Poultry Farming (1909), based on his previously serialized articles for Farm Life. He also began writing satirical pieces about the London society and manners he encountered on his visits back to the city. | ||
Despite his bad eyesight and general poor health, Ewart joined the army in the summer of 1914. He obtained a commission, serving as a captain in the Scots Guards. During his wartime service, Ewart met writer Stephen Graham, then a soldier in Ewart's battalion. As an officer, Ewart would have not typically associated with Graham, a conscript who was ten years his senior. But, the two bonded over their mutual interest in literature and writing since, as Graham would recall, the Scots Guards was "not a literary regiment." During the war, Ewart wrote articles, sometimes pseudonymously, about the Scots Guards and combat. After the war, he published a novel, The Way of Revelation; A Novel of Five Years (1921), which drew on his wartime experiences. The Way of Revelation became a bestseller and was highly praised even at a time when readers were becoming weary of war memoirs and novels. | ||
In 1921, Ewart travelled through Ireland, penning articles for the Times about the civil strife between the British and Irish nationalist forces. He then gathered and expanded these pieces for the volume A Journey in Ireland, 1921 (1922). He also continued writing reviews and articles for periodicals and newspapers. In April of 1922, Ewart suffered a mental and physical collapse, which included the partial paralysis of his fingers. Historian Hugh Cecil suggests that Ewart's always fragile psychology might have been further unbalanced by a combination of the aftereffects of the war, his immersion in the London literary scene, overwork, and personal disappointments. At the urging of Stephen Graham and his wife, Ewart set out to visit the couple and recover with them in Santa Fe, New Mexico. | ||
Ewart embarked for the United States in September of 1922. He took with him notes for the history of the Scots Guards during the First World War that he was composing. In New Mexico, Ewart recovered the use of his fingers and began to write again. Though he had planned to spend the Christmas holidays in New Orleans, at the last minute he decided to delay his visit to Louisiana and travel to Mexico first. It was in Mexico City that, having survived the First World War, Ewart met his tragic early death. Near midnight on December 31, 1922, Ewart stepped out onto his hotel balcony to observe the New Year's festivities. He was killed by a stray bullet fired by a reveler celebrating below. | ||
In spite of his death, Wilfrid Ewart's literary career continued. In 1924, Stephen Graham commemorated his friend and fellow writer in his volume The Life and Last Words of Wilfrid Ewart (1924). Ewart's own opening chapters on the Scots Guards were gathered alongside material by F. Loraine Petre and Major-General Cecil Lowther in a volume titled The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918 (1925). In the early 1930s, John Gawsworth (the pen name of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong) began editing and publishing posthumous volumes of Ewart's writing, first When Armageddon Came: Studies in Peace and War (1933) and then Scots Guard (1934), an autobiographical account of Ewart's war and post-war years based on Ewart's letters to his family and published articles. These were followed by two additional posthumous volumes, Love and Strife (1936), a novel Ewart had written before Way of Revelation, and Aspects of England (1937), a collection of Ewart's essays on English rural life. | ||
John Gawsworth, 1912-1970 | ||
British editor, anthologist, and poet John Gawsworth (1912-1970) was a bohemian and bibliophile who worked assiduously to revive the reputations of writers he felt were unduly neglected. Gawsworth was born Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong on June 29, 1912. His parents, Frederick Percy and Ethel Jackson Armstrong, were divorced when Gawsworth was still a child, and he was raised in London where he attended Merchant Taylors' School. | ||
Following his graduation in 1928, Armstrong began working at the bookstore of Andrew Block in the Soho region of London. Gawsworth was zealous about collecting books and manuscripts and soon met several writers through his various positions in the book trade. He fashioned himself as a "Man of Letters," adopting the nom-de-plume "John Gawsworth." He also wrote and published poetry, including his early volumes Confession: Verses (1931) and Fifteen Poems, Three Friends (1931). In 1929, he began corresponding with and eventually met writer Arthur Machen, about whom he wrote an unpublished biography. He next focused his attention on the horror and fantasy writer, M. P. Shiel, who was a friend of Machen's and whose reputation was then similarly in decline. When Shiel died in 1947, he bequeathed to Gawsworth the title of "King Juan I of Redonda." Shiel's father had staked a claim on the miniature Caribbean island and had fancifully crowned his son king. In this manner, the already multiply-named Gawsworth received another moniker, the King of Redonda. | ||
In the early 1930s, Gawsworth began publishing horror, mystery, and fantasy anthologies, such as Strange Assembly: New Stories (1932), Full Score: Twenty-five Stories (1933) and New Tales of Horror by Eminent Authors (1934), which contained stories by Machen, Shiel, and others. The Gawsworth-edited anthology Masterpiece of Thrills (1936) is notable for being one of the earliest book appearances by writer Lawrence Durrell. Gawsworth's efforts on behalf of fantasy, mystery, and horror writing helped draw renewed attention to this genre. | ||
In his editing, Gawsworth would at times undertake collaborations, revising and completing story fragments by authors such as E. H. Visiak, M. P. Shiel, and Edgar Jepson. During the 1930s, Gawsworth edited four posthumous volumes of Wilfrid Ewart's writing: When Armageddon Came: Studies in Peace and War (1933), Scots Guard (1934), Love and Strife (1936), and Aspects of England (1937). Gawsworth's editing of Ewart's work entailed revising previously published essays, and even, in the case of Scots Guard, drawing on Ewart's correspondence to produce a first person episodic narrative. Gawsworth also edited volumes of writing by M. P. Shiel, Theodore Wratislaw, E. H. W. Meyerstein, and others. | ||
In the late 1930s, Gawsworth began receiving recognition for his literary and editorial efforts. He became first a member in 1933 and then a Fellow in 1938 of the Royal Society of Literature, before winning its Benson Silver Medal in 1939. | ||
Gawsworth founded The English Digest in 1939 and served as its editor until 1941. Following his service in both the Royal Army and the Royal Air Force during World War II, he resumed his work on periodicals. He edited Enquiry, a journal of parapsychology and philosophy, The Literary Digest, and, most notably, from 1949 to 1952, The Poetry Review. The late 1940s also saw the publication of The Collected Poems of John Gawsworth (1948), a high point in his poetic career. | ||
Gawsworth's personal life took a difficult turn in the late 1940s. In 1948, he divorced his first wife Barbara Kentish, whom he had married in 1933. He subsequently entered into unsuccessful marriages with Estelle Gilardeau and Doreen Emily Ada (Rowley) Downie, whom he called "Anna." This time period also saw a decline in his literary reputation and his health (he was diabetic and a heavy drinker). By 1969, with little money, he was living an itinerant lifestyle, staying with friends when he could, traveling some, and passing in and out of hospitals. In July of 1970, he was honored in a BBC tribute hosted by Lawrence Durrell, but died soon after of a pulmonary embolism at the Brompton Hospital in London on September 23, 1970. |
Cecil, Hugh. "Noblesse Oblige: Wilfrid Ewart." The Flower of Battle; British Fiction Writers of the First World War. (London: Secker & Wargurg, 1995): 119-153. | ||
Eng, Steve. "John Gawsworth." Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 255: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers, 1918-1960. http://www.galegroup.com (accessed July 31, 2010). | ||
Eng, Steve. "John Gawsworth–Pioneer 'Collaborator.'" Shiel and His Collaborators: Three Essays on William Thomas Stead, Louis Tracy, and John Gawsworth. John D. Squires and Steve Eng, eds. (Kettering, Ohio: The Vainglory Press, 2004): 37-42. | ||
Graham, Stephen. The Life and Last Words of Wilfrid Ewart. (London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1924). |
Scope and Contents
The Wilfrid Ewart Collection consists of materials accumulated by John Gawsworth (Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong) for his posthumous volumes of Ewart's writing. These materials include a small number of typescripts and manuscripts by Ewart, research notes, copies of Ewart's correspondence with his family, clippings and copies of Ewart's published articles (often with corrections in Gawsworth's hand), and Gawsworth's own emended drafts of writings by Ewart. Also present are clippings about Ewart and a scrapbook containing reviews of and articles about Gawsworth's volumes of Ewart's writing. The collection does not include draft materials for the two books that Ewart published during his lifetime: his bestselling novel The Way of Revelation (1921) and Journey in Ireland, 1921 (1922), although photocopies of some of the articles Ewart wrote on Ireland for the Times are among the research materials Gawsworth used in compiling Scots Guard (1934). The collection is arranged in three series: I. Works, 1907-1967; II. Correspondence and Works by Others, 1924-1967; and III. Scrapbook and Clippings, 1912-1937. | ||
Series I. consists of works by Wilfrid Ewart, including manuscripts and typescripts (some produced by Gawsworth) with handwritten corrections by both Ewart and Gawsworth. Research notes and copies of Ewart's correspondence are also present. This series is organized alphabetically by the title of each work. The series' drafts and emended article clippings document the extent of John Gawsworth's editorial interventions. Of the four posthumous volumes of Ewart's writing edited by Gawsworth, only Ewart's novel Love and Strife (1936) is not represented here. Drafts for this novel do, however, appear in the Harry Ransom Center's Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong collection. | ||
Materials for Scots Guard (1934), an autobiographical account of Ewart's experiences from the First World War up until his death, constitute the largest collection of documents in the Works series. Gawsworth drew on Ewart's correspondence and published articles to produce the book's first person narrative. Materials for this volume include Gawsworth's typescript and manuscript copies of over eighty letters from Ewart to his family, beginning during the war and dating up until a few days before his death. Other Scots Guard materials include article proofs with Ewart's emendations; clippings, photostats, and Gawsworth's manuscript and typescript copies of Ewart's published articles; an advance proof of the volume with minor corrections, and publicity materials. Articles interleaved in the advanced proof copy have been removed to box 1, folder 14, though their original positions are indicated with paper flags. | ||
When Armageddon Came (1933) is represented by article clippings, manuscript fragments in Ewart's hand, and manuscript and proof versions of John Gawsworth's preface. Aspects of England (1937) is represented by proof, typescript, and manuscript fragments (in Gawsworth's hand). Additional materials in this series include Gawsworth's file of uncollected articles by Ewart, as well as additional individual article drafts and fragments, some of which contain corrections in Ewart's hand. Also present is a composite draft for an unpublished volume of Ewart's journalism titled Impressions and Reactions. Gawsworth abandoned this volume when a kit bag containing additional manuscripts was discovered by Ewart's father, Herbert. These newly-discovered materials formed the basis of Love and Strife (1936) and Aspects of England (1937). | ||
The Works series also includes research notes, drafts, and correspondence from Ewart's fellow officers for the book on the Scots Guards in the First World War that Ewart was preparing at the time of his death. This work was later completed, incorporating chapters by Ewart, by F. Loraine Petre under the title The Scots Guards in the Great War, 1914-1918 (1925). | ||
Series II. Works by Others consists of letters from Ewart's father, Herbert, and sister, Angela, to John Gawsworth; a letter from Herbert Ewart to writer Stephen Graham, and a typescript for an unpublished article on Ewart by his friend Henry Williamson, titled A Wild Goose Chase with Gawsworth. | ||
Series III. consists of clippings of published articles on Ewart and his writing. The folder of press clippings includes over forty-five articles and notices written about Ewart during his lifetime, five photographs of the countryside, a copy of The White Wyandotte Club Year Book, 1912 containing Ewart's "The Minor Points of a White Wyandote," and Ewart's Times obituary notice. A scrapbook contains John Gawsworth's collection of press clippings for When Armageddon Came (1933), Scots Guard (1934), Love and Strife (1936), and Aspects of England (1937). | ||
Materials in the collection are in English and are in good condition, with the exception of the clippings scrapbook, which is fragile. A digital copy of the scrapbook is available for access. |
Related Material
The Ransom Center's collection of Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (John Gawsworth) contains a significant amount of Wilfrid Ewart material, including drafts of over seventy articles, seven chapters of Scots Guard, and a composite manuscript of Love and Strife. Additional Ewart materials are located in the Center's collections of Sir Compton Mackenzie and Alec Waugh. | ||
An additional collection of Wilfrid Ewart's papers is located at the University of California, Los Angeles's Charles E. Young Library. A major collection of Gawsworth is held by the Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Iowa. Further collections of John Gawsworth materials are located at Reading University and the University at Buffalo, State University of New York Special Collections. Drafts of Gawsworth's unpublished biography of Arthur Machen reside at the University of California, Los Angeles's Charles E. Young Library. |
Index Terms
People |
Gawsworth, John (Armstrong, Terence Ian Fytton), 1912-1970 | ||
Graham, Stephen (1884-1975) | ||
Lowther, Hugh Cecil, 1857–1944 | ||
Subjects |
Authors, English 20th century | ||
Great Britain. Army. Scots Guards--Officers | ||
World War I--Great Britain--Personal Narratives | ||
Document Types |
black-and-white photographs | ||
scrapbooks |


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Yes, it's true, early bird registration for this year's Annual gathering closes today. If you were debating whether or not to go to the conference, check out this year's Solo Division lineup - it's sure to make you want to attend!
Sunday, 06/13/10
12:00-1:30pm Solo Librarians Division Board Meeting. ALL INVITED!
Monday, 06/14/10
10:00-11:30am Practical Guide to a User-Focused Digital Library. This session elaborates on the various aspects of building, managing, and promoting a digital library including tools to build and evaluate a digital library, digital content licensing, and tips on how to promote the use of this content. (Speaker Qin Zhu). Co-sponsored by DIT.
2:00-3:30pm SPOTLIGHT SESSION: Brand You and Web 2.0. Mary Ellen Bates: How do you manage your online profiles, establish your expertise and express yourself on the web, without compromising you reputation? This session looks at how info pros can make use of the social web to build their professional networks, establish their credibility and share their expertise, without compromising their professional reputation.
4:00-5:30pm Success Stories of Solos. Original session format back by popular demand! Success is measured in a variety of ways. In this roundtable discussion panelists share their success stories in solo librarianship. Come find out how others have broken down walls, created innovative services and more! Share your own story. Attendee discussion and participation encouraged. Moderated by Patrick Clapp
8:00-10:00pm. Solo Librarians Division Open House. Did you ever find yourself asking, "am I a Solo Librarian?" Or, "I have some staff, am I still a Solo?" To answer these questions and more join the Solo Librarians Division to unravel the mysteries of the Solo Librarian. Meet new friends and make new ones while you enjoy good food and beverages. All are welcome to this great networking event!
Tuesday, 06/15/10
10:00-11:30am Solo Librarians 3rd Annual Gerry Hurley Memorial Leadership Session. Leadership and Influence: Building Capacity for Change. Weaving together research from advocacy, collaboration, influence and leadership, Ken Haycock will provide a practical yet evidence-based approach to building capacity for change and improvement in your organization.
12:00-1:30pm Solo Librarians Division Business Meeting and Luncheon. The Solo Board of Directors will share news of the past year, as well as plans for the next year, with members and guests.
8:00-10:00pm. Joint Reception with the Petroleum & Energy Resources, Government, and Transportation Divisions @ Mulates—"The Original Cajun"Check them out a www.mulates.com.
Wednesday, 06/16/10
10:00-11:30am Taxonomy Made Easy. An Introduction to Taxonomies for the Accidental Taxonomist This session will provide an overview of taxonomies and tools to help you get started. Speaker Heather Hedden. Co-sponsored by DTAXO.


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April 18, 2012
Cuban architect to visit K-State
Professor and architect Mabel Matamoros is on campus through May 5 to meet with faculty and students in several departments and campus organizations for discussions on a variety of cultural and architectural topics.
Katrina Lewis, assistant professor of interior architecture and product design, and Jeffrey Smith, associate professor of geography, are collaborating to establish research connections in Cuba.
Matamoros has been brought to campus with assistance from the College of Architecture, Planning and Design; the department of geography; the office of international programs; the department of modern languages; and Alianza.
Matamoros, who teaches at the Jose Antonio Echevarria Polytechnic Institute in Havana, is helping to incorporate global perspectives into classes in interior architecture and geography and to give lectures and lead discussions on Cuban architecture and society.
The main lecture will be at 4 p.m. Monday, April 23, in the Little Theatre at the K-State Student Union. The lecture, "An Overview of Cuba Today" is free and open to the public.


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On February 13th, Kurtulus Aykan, Consul General of Turkey in Guangzhou, had a special mission to deliver more than one ton of medical supplies to China Post at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport.
Kurtulus Aykan, Consul General of Turkey in Guangzhou delivered a speech at donationceremony, February 13th, 2020. (Photo: Keane Wong)
This is the second donation from Turkey and is expected to arrive in Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a day later.
"China is not alone in the fight against this evil epidemic," the Consul General stressed in the interview with Newsgd.com. "we will always be ready to help our Chinese friends to overcome challenges during this difficult time. "
Adversity reveals true friendship
"A friend in need is a friend indeed." Hua Chunying, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, remarked at a press conference on February 3rd. She sincerely thanked all of the 21 countries that have aided China when it is in urgent need of medical supplies.
"Turkey always stands by our Chinese friends," Aykan stressed through an open letter issued on February 11th. "We will stand in solidarity with China in fighting against the virus. "
Being one of the first countries to support China, Turkey sent 1000 biohazard suits, 93,500 filtered masks and 1000 disposable protective coveralls to Wuhan on January 31st soon after the outbreak. The Consul General indicated that this is the work of the Turkish government, Turkish Embassy in China and many different NGOs.
Second donation from Turkey (Photo: Keane Wong)
"We did not forget China's aid after the 1999 earthquake in Turkey ," Aykan said. "We are returning the precious aid you extended to us in our difficult time."
"Disasters remind us that there is not a single country and there is no 'you' or 'I' but only 'us' in the face of a common threat to humanity." The Consul General indicated.
Strong measures will bring results
As for the South China region, Kurtulus Aykan said the Turkish Consulate General in Guangzhou is also actively helping the Guangdong authorities in the prevention and control of the coronavirus outbreak.
The Consul General proudly introduced the 'Southern China Turks Crisis Management Team' which comprises 499 active members and different supporting groups. "The team is instrumental in shedding light on very important issues to fight the epidemic in the region and will be ready to help our Chinese friends to overcome this critical challenge."
In addition, the Consul General highly appreciated the Guangdong authorities' efforts in taking strong and timely measures in epidemic control and calming the public.
"Now when I go out, I see people with face masks and taking all kinds of personal precautions," Aykan indicated, "but they are confident in walking and shopping necessities instead of panicking."
People wearing face mask when going out (Photo: Zhang Ziwang)
The Consul General indicated that timely information disclosure and transparent information sharing is very important from the early days of the epidemic. In his opinion, this is the most successful measure that the government has taken so far.
Apart from the press conference organized on a daily basis, the Guangdong government has adopted a grid management mechanism, which aims to reach every resident living in the province. As of February 11th, Guangdong has enlisted more than 170 thousand government officials and social workers to enforce information collection, roll out suspected cases and provide relevant guidance, covering all of the nearly 26 thousand individual communities.
"Behind the curtains, we know how Guangdong government is working hard to assist all local people and foreigners living in this region in dealing with the epidemic," said the Consul General, "I would like to express my gratitude to the government and related departments for the timely updates of information about the epidemic and providing assistance to foreigners in Guangdong."
With all these efforts, Kurtulus Aykan believes China will contain the outbreak and eventually wipe it out, and Chinese economy will soon recover after the impact of this outbreak. Turkey, as one of the key countries within the Belt and Road Initiative will play its part in supporting China to overcome these difficulties.
"We firmly believe that the friendship and cooperation between the two countries and peoples will continue to increase after the fight against this virus is won."
Authors: Jasmine Yin, Steven Yuen
Editors: Olivia Ouyang, Simon Haywood
Zoey Huang also made contribution to this story.


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Damian Green
Who knew? Boris Johnson, Mayor of London and thus one of the Met's bosses, was informed prior to the event. So was David Cameron. Apparently the Home Secretary, the Police Minister and the rest of the Government were not informed – maybe. In fact, there is a barely-discernible amount of wiggle room being inserted. Phil Woolas on the Today programme this morning said only that, to his knowledge, no Minister had been informed. Jacqui Smith, in her statement, said that the arrest had happened without ministerial involvement or authorisation. There's a distinction between being informed and being involved – though I doubt whether semantics will help the Government if it turns out that they were informed.
On the basis that the Government weren't informed, why the hell not? This is pre-eminently a political decision. The "crime" involved here was the leaking of political documents. The man arrested was shadow Home Secretary (incidentally, I wonder how many anti-terrorist officers David Davis would have taken down with him?). This was a political operation. Why the fuck didn't the police keep the Home Office informed? Rozzers aren't famous for their willingness to stick their head over the political parapet. Why did they rush over the top on this occasion?
Anti-terrorist police – what the fuck? I mean, what the fucking fuck? On the same day that terrorists cause carnage in Mumbai, with British subjects involved, with security levels presumably pretty high, why the fuck are numerous anti-terrorist police storming the home of a 52 year old MP? Disproportionate much?
Mr Speaker. Why did he give permission for the police to search Damian Green's office? There's a lot of civil war references flying around, and what they stand for is the role of Parliament. The Speaker's job is to represent Parliament; he would have been well within his rights to refuse permission until the matter had been more clearly explained and/or charges had been brought: so what was he playing at?
This has the potential to be a real disaster for the Met Police, and for the Government if more comes out about the details behind this. Hopefully that will prevent future such arrests every time news that embarrasses Gordon Brown leaks out.


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Use mulch to cover soil surfaces (saves 20-30 gallons per 1,000 square feet)
Adjust sprinklers to water plants, not the driveway or sidewalk (saves 12-15 gallons each time you water)
Water plants early in the morning (saves 25 gallons each time you water)
Install a "smart" sprinkler controller (saves 24+ gallons per day)
Install a drip irrigation system (saves 15 gallons each time you water)
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In both cases, the grasses' crowns remain alive and, in hot situations, water may revive the grasses. It is possible, however, for weather to get so hot that no amount of water helps. This is a special concern in our arid environment. But don't worry: Dormancy is a natural, built-in protection mechanism. Your grass probably will return when the weather cools in the fall.
However, failure to do so could result in fines of up to $500 a day. Water providers can also shut off or restrict your water service.
Fix leaky toilets (saves 30-50 gallons per toilet per day)
Take 5 minute showers instead of 10 minute showers (saves 12.5 gallons per shower with an efficient shower head)
Fill the bathtub halfway up or less (saves 12 gallons per bath)
Wash only full loads of laundry (saves 15-45 gallons per load)
Run the dishwasher only when full (saves 5-15 gallons per load)
• Completed landscape water audits of Temple City Park and Live Oak Park.• Retrofitted plumbing fixtures at city facilities and Live Oak Park Community Center.• Ceased watering of ornamental turf on public street medians and certain areas of city parks. • Ceased outdoor irrigation during, and 48 hours following, measurable precipitation.• Replaced park irrigation systems with new sprinklers for increased water efficiency.
Meanwhile, the City is actively seeking funding for continued water efficient upgrades, What's more, it was recently granted the Water Smart City Award, which recognizes the City's commitment to reduce water consumption at city facilities, to adopt city policies for further water conservation, and to publicize available water conservation programs to its nearly 38,000 residents.


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It's not looking at its best at this time of year but I will happily forgo the visual just has long as that beautiful aroma remains.
Some of the many ingredients I like to use with sage are potatoes and onions and the dish I've made combines them all. Inspired by a pie by
3 medium Nicola Potatoes (use a waxy potato), sliced finely
1 red onion, sliced finely
grated swiss cheese
fresh sage leaves
butter, melted
Prepare the onion:
Drizzle a little oil and a knob of butter into a skillet and place over a medium heat. When the butter has melted add the onions and cook slowly until softened but not coloured.
Prepare the potatoes:
Peel the potatoes and then slice them as finely as you can. Butter and line the base of a 20cm cake pan - it is best to use a pan with a removable base or a springform tin.
Arrange slices of potato, overlapping slightly, around the edge of the tin so that they just reach the top of the tin and fold over into the base. Cover the base with a layer of potatoes.
Season with a little salt and pepper, scatter over with some cooked onions and grated cheese and then dot some sage leaves on top. Cover this with another layer of potato slices. Press down to ensure an even layer then repeat the process. Keep in mind that you won't have to salt every layer as there is a certain amount of salt in cheese, so adjust as necessary.
Stop when the filling has almost reached the top of the potato edge - fold the edge over the filling, dab the exposed potato with a little butter and then finish with potato slices. Brush the top with a little more butter.
Cover the pan loosely with foil and place on a baking tray.
Bake in pre-heated 160°C oven until cooked through - about 40 to 60 minutes depending on thickness. Remove the foil, raise the heat to 180°C and continue cooking until browned.
Let it sit in the pan for about 5 minutes before unmoulding.
This is an excellent companion to grilled meats.


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By Deanna Bellandi
Associated Press
CHICAGO — President Barack Obama's relationship with his hometown may be best described as a long-distance love affair. He lavishes attention on it from afar and proud Chicago pines for its hometown hero, though the two rarely see each other.
That looks like it's about to change.
Obama is returning to his roots as he embarks on his re-election race for 2012. He's setting up his campaign headquarters in a downtown high-rise near Grant Park, the site of his victory celebration on election night in November 2008.
He's coming back Thursday to raise money, a week after launching his second White House bid with an understated email and online video.
The president is putting Chicago in the spotlight again as he tries to recreate the grass-roots, start-up flavor of his first campaign and do what no incumbent president has done in decades: try to win re-election from a location outside Washington.
A Chicago base also could reinforce a connection to a city that aides say keeps Obama grounded while he lives in the nation's capital.
"Nobody is more eager to be out and nobody is more eager to be here than him," said David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist who left the White House this year to return to Chicago to work on the re-election and be closer to his Chicago-based family. "The conversation in Washington is completely different than the conversation you hear out here."
Obama's advisers hope a Chicago location could insulate his campaign from some of the Washington chatter and news leaks that often plague campaigns. A beyond-the-Beltway headquarters could allow them to offset the notion that Obama, who campaigned as an outsider above the partisan fray and promised a new approach to politics, has become the ultimate political insider.
"Basing it in Chicago says, 'I'm not of Washington,' but if he doesn't spend time in Chicago, he is of Washington," said Paul Light, a public service professor at New York University.
Obama's relationship with his town has evolved over the years.
He was a community organizer, worked on a major voter drive and practiced law in his early days in the city. When he entered politics, he focused on the state capital of Springfield, and cast himself as above the brass-knuckled nature of Chicago politics, whose history is pockmarked with corruption and scandal.
During the 2008 campaign, Obama was a fixture in Chicago when he wasn't crisscrossing the country for votes. He took his wife, Michelle, around town to dinner at some of the city's best restaurants. He hung out with his daughters. He worked out at the gym. He played basketball with his buddies. He attended meetings at his campaign office, all under the watchful eye of reporters and Secret Service agents. His family, friends and neighbors talked openly about the candidate and his lifestyle.
As president, Obama has made only about a half a dozen visits to Chicago, often to raise money for candidates. He's made only a few overnight trips to his South Side house.
His neighbors don't seem to hold it against him.
"He's got a whole world to deal with," says Hosea McKay, a 73-year-old retired substance abuse counselor, who lives several blocks away. "Chicago . we can't be so egotistical that we think he's supposed to pop in every three or four months and hang out with us."
The area around Obama's house looks much like it did during the last campaign when extra security measures were added. Even when Obama isn't there, guards and barriers — both metal and concrete — restrict access to his street. His house can be seen through some trees from a nearby busy thoroughfare.
But the neighborhood has changed somewhat since the Obamas left. They're getting new neighbors because the home next door to theirs was sold last year.
While sharing a neighborhood with the president has its share of hassles, Prince Ella Murphy, who lives about a block away, doesn't mind, especially when it comes to the security that increases when Obama is in town.
"I love it. I feel protected because, I mean, they have police everywhere," said Murphy, a 61-year-old retired hotel worker.
Over the past two years, the Obamas have devised ways not to be homesick. They've brought Chicago to them in Washington.
They tapped into their network of hometown connections when they moved into the White House. Among those who relocated to Washington with the Obamas were friend Valerie Jarrett, now a White House adviser, and the family's personal chef. Obama's Chicago buddies, Eric Whitaker and Marty Nesbitt, are constant vacation companions. Countless Chicagoans have visited the White House over the past two years.
The president hosted the 2010 Stanley Cup winners, the Chicago Blackhawks at the White House, last month and put the city's other professional teams on notice. He said: "Let me just say to all the Bears fans, Bulls fans, White Sox fans, and Cubs fans, I want to see all of you sometime soon, as well."
In another nod to their hometown, the Obamas dyed the water in the White House fountains green to celebrate their first St. Patrick's Day in the White House. The city colors the Chicago River that cuts through downtown to celebrate the holiday.
He also swapped one chief of staff from Chicago for another. Rahm Emanuel is Chicago's mayor-elect, while Bill Daley, the current mayor's brother, joined the White House as part of a staff reshuffling aimed at getting ready for the campaign.
While Axelrod said more presidential visits are likely, given that the campaign headquarters is in Chicago, just how much time Obama and his family will spend in Chicago this time is unclear. The duties of the presidency don't lend themselves to much down time.
His team is setting up shop in a downtown high-rise not far from offices the Obama operation used in 2008. Campaign manager Jim Messina, a former White House deputy chief of staff, is directing the effort, and Axelrod is certain to be a constant presence.
"It's nascent group and it's going to grow," said Axelrod, who stopped by the offices recently. "You could sense, you could feel some of that old excitement coming back and you know people are really eager to get going."
Some are hoping to see Obama, himself, more.
Says Freddie Fitch, 53, who lives just a few blocks from the Obamas, "We love him here."


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1983 Volkswagen Santana LX 1.8 petrol from Lithuania
Best car for student- cheap, fast, comfortable
When turn of the engine it still works for a few seconds, but mechanic fixed it with no problem, no new parts were needed for it, adjustment was only thing to fix.
Back door won't open from outside anymore (but still opens from inside)
Gear switch (handle) broke up, now I put screwdriver in it to switch gears (look like tuning :D)
General Comments:
This car is really fast (try to drag and won against "Ford Mondeo" 1996 1.8 L, but after 100 Ford was faster :D)
Big car, so you can drive with a lot of friends comfortably, big boot, so you can put a lot o stuff when going to vacation (it's especially relevant for my girl fiend :D)
Seats are very comfortable.
I don't like interior (panel), but it is only because it look like very old.
Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? Yes
Review Date: 8th June, 2006


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As she travelled to work Thursday morning, Becky Finley said she did a double-take as she drove by the sign outside Princess Margaret Secondary in Surrey.
She was upset enough by the posted words to turn around, stop and take a photo of the sign and email it to the Surrey Now-Leader via the "submit a news tip" button on the newspaper's website, along with a message voicing her displeasure.
The sign reads, "Finally my winter fat is gone! Now I have spring rolls."
Finley says the message is unacceptable, especially for a sign in front of a school.
"In today's day and age, with the numbers of women, particularly, struggling with body-image issues resulting in low self-esteem and medical problems like anorexia, where would the average girl's mind go when arriving at school with a message like this at the door?" she wrote.
Messages on the sign, on 72nd Avenue, are changed every 10 days with the help of students in the school's BASES program, or Building Academic Social and Employment Skills.
• READ MORE: Creative quotes posted on Surrey school sign turn heads with humour, from December 2017.
Students in the class come up with ideas for the messages, which are then brought to the school principal, Paulo Sarmento, for his final approval.
When told of the school's sign-message program, Finley said the principal shouldn't have approved the current one.
"The signs are usually interesting, they're amusing, they're funny. I look for them sometimes, and I never saw anything that wasn't appropriate, until now," Finley told the Now-Leader in a phone interview.
"I think the students are doing a good job in creating the signs," she said, "but it's the principal who vetted this and allowed this to pass. The students may not be aware of these issues, with weight and body image, unless they're going through it themselves."
Finley said she intends to call the school, or the school board, in an effort to have the current message removed.
Finley said her daughter is a former student at Princess Margaret.
"I sent it (the photo of the sign) to her and another former student, who are both now in their 30s, to ask them what kind of backlash they would have felt showing up at school with this sign present on the front lawn of the school," Finley said in her email. "Both were mortified. Note that these two young women are both on the round side in body figure."
A school sign is the wrong place for such a message, Finley said.
"At a school where you have a large population of young people susceptible to body image, especially girls, it's not appropriate. It's an inflammatory message for a school," she added.
Some time ago, administrators of the school decided to go with humorous, timely and sometimes seasonal messages on the sign, rather than the typical Report Card Day and Band Concert reminders, and got the BASES students involved.
The result has been some creative quotes, such as "I told a chemistry joke. There was no reaction" and "What if the algebra teachers are really pirates and are using us to find X."
Sarmento was not at the school on Thursday, and therefore not available for comment.
The goal, Sarmento told the Now-Leader in December, is "to make people smile as they drive by our school.… I have people calling the school now commenting on our school sign.
"It's taken off," the principal added. "I've got people calling me saying, 'Hey, what's with your signs? They're good.' And the kids love it when they hear this stuff, right? They're proud."


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[Dave] spiced up his new 2012 Nissan Juke with a little tail-light amendment. You can see that outlining the rim of the light enclosure is a series of dots. This is an LED strip that he added to augment the brake lights. It's glued in place, and features side emitting LEDs so that the light will be focused behind the car.
To control the strip he's using an ATtiny85 microcontroller. It's the chip on the right, and an optoisolator next to it protects it from the 12V vehicle power which drives the strip (via a MOSFET), and acts as a trigger when the brake pedal is pressed. He wrote a few effects into the firmware. When the lights are turned on, the strip fades up to 75% over about eight seconds. When the brake pedal is pressed they go to 100%. Check out the video after the break (it seems a little weird to us, as the video runs 18 seconds but the audio keeps going… YMMV).
We've seen a couple of tail light concepts that flash the brake lights when you stomp on the pedal. Unfortunately the Juke (and all other cars as far as we know) don't have functionality built-in to sense when you've really given the brake a sudden jolt. It makes us wonder if this info could be gleaned from the CANbus?


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Alright AT&Tizzle, you won. You've blocked people from accessing BGR on your network (unless they are pretty high up), so we're blocking you. That's right. All the higher-ups will no longer be able to surf BGR. They'll have to resort to viewing our scoops on the thousands of sites that pick them up. It was fun while it lasted, but we have a feeling you'll miss us a lot more than we'll miss you.
UPDATE: Looks like we're frandz again. AT&T has removed the block on BGR! Thanks, tipsters!


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With many Americans alternately bored and infuriated by the latest made-for-TV fiscal melodrama in Washington, something highly unusual happened. A prominent, name-brand pundit published a column about the "sequestration" battle that was not merely smug, lazy and condescending, but factually false.
So what else is new, right?
What's newsworthy is that when somebody he couldn't ignore called him out, the columnist was forced to publicly eat his words. Newsworthy for two reasons: first, because regardless of what they claim about their strict code of professional ethics, Washington political journalists normally cover for each other like cops and Roman Catholic clerics.
It's been going on for a generation, and worsening as TV stardom and the lecture circuit have made celebrity pundits wealthy.
Second, because of what David Brooks' blunder says about the "fever swamp of the center," as New York magazine's Jonathan Chait calls it: a mindset reflecting the desperate pretense that "both sides" are equally responsible for Washington's endless budgetary crises, and all that's necessary to resolve them is a mature spirit of compromise.
And maybe too what the whole charade says about the audience for such piffle: an American public that's better informed about Tom Brady's new contract and Kim Kardashian's cup size than the national budget deficit.
How New York Times editors waved David Brooks' column into print is a mystery. One had the impression things had improved there since the heyday of Jeff Gerth and Judith Miller—whose inept reporting helped bring us the Whitewater hoax and the Iraq War, respectively.
"The DC Dubstep," Brooks called the column; the joke being that budget sequestration gave Democrats and Republicans alike a chance to do "the dance moves they enjoy the most."
"Under the Permanent Campaign Shimmy," Brooks wrote, "the president identifies a problem. Then he declines to come up with a proposal to address the problem. Then he comes up with a vague-but-politically-convenient concept that doesn't address the problem (let's raise taxes on the rich). Then he goes around the country blasting the opposition….The president hasn't actually come up with a proposal to avert sequestration, let alone one that is politically plausible."
Ha, ha, ha! See, Obama's failure to lead then encourages Republicans to do the "Suicide Stage Dive," working themselves "into a frenzy of self-admiration," and leaping "into what they imagine is [sic] the loving arms of their adoring fans" only to "land with a thud on the floor."
Probably a sober-sided fellow like Brooks shouldn't attempt satire, which requires a subversive imagination. Also a regular on PBS and NPR, he plays a non-carnivorous Republican—conservative, yes, but not somebody who's going to carry an AR-15 to a Washington cocktail party.
But the problem with Brooks' column is more basic. Because love it or hate it, the White House long ago presented a detailed plan for averting sequestration. President Obama has been flying around the country talking it up every day. You can read it here.
Kevin Drum neatly summarized the contents: "specific cuts to entitlements, including the adoption of chained CPI for Social Security and $400 billion in various cuts to healthcare spending, along with further cuts to mandatory programs as well as to both defense and domestic discretionary programs. Altogether, it clocks in at $1.1 trillion in spending cuts and $700 billion in revenue increases, mostly gained from limiting tax deductions for high-end earners."
In short, you can call the White House plan anything you like. But you can't call it non-existent. The entire premise of Brooks' column was false; the political equivalent of criticizing Bill Belichick's poor coaching in the 2013 Super Bowl. (His team didn't get there.) A sportswriter would be laughed out of the press room; maybe out of journalism.
But hey, it's only national politics, and only the New York Times.
Enter Ezra Klein, the Washington Post's ubiquitous blogger. An ambitious lad of 28, Klein had the temerity to pick up the phone. Apparently, the youngster didn't understand that these things simply aren't done. His column, he informed Brooks, was rubbish. Would he like to talk about it?
To his credit, Brooks did, but not before adding an online postscript to his column explaining that he'd "written in a mood of justified frustration over …fiscal idiocy," and "should have acknowledged the balanced and tough-minded elements in the president's approach."
A transcript of Brooks' deeply embarrassing conversation with his younger rival was posted online. Give him this much: Brooks definitely faced the music. So frank an admission of error rarely appears in the high-dollar press.
And what about you, dear reader?
Recently Bloomberg News published a poll. Asked if the nation's budget deficit was growing or shrinking, only 6% answered correctly: it's going down. This year's projected deficit is $600 billion smaller than when President Obama took office.
If you didn't know that, maybe you're also part of the problem.


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The Arctic Oscillation (AO) is calculated based on seal level pressure differences (now measured by satellite for the 1000 mb height). (See: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/hgt.shtml ) "The AO index describes the relative intensity of a semipermanent low-pressure center over the North Pole. A band of upper-level winds circulates around this center, forming a vortex. When the AO index is positive and the vortex intense, the winds tighten like a noose around the North Pole, locking cold air in place. A negative AO and weak vortex … allow intrusions of cold air to plunge southward into North America, Europe, and Asia. … the index has been mostly positive in wintertime since the late 1980s. The Arctic Oscillation has strengthened in recent decades, contributing to the unusual warmth over the Northern Hemisphere land masses." [http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2003/deser.html] The following figures show the effect of positive AO (left) and negative AO (right) [http://biogeo.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/fileadmin/user_upload/_temp_/Martin/lesson/CC_Wilmking_05.ppt]. The colder stratosphere associated with the positive AO results in reduced ozone. The following figure shows the winter Arctic Oscillation (AO) for 1950 - 2008 [http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/detect/climate-ao.shtml] The following figure provides another view of the same data – "the standardized seasonal mean AO index during cold season (blue line) is constructed by averaging the daily AO index for January, February and March for each year. The black line denotes the standardized five-year running mean of the index. Both curves are standardized using 1950-2000 base period statistics." [http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/JFM_season_ao_index.shtml] The National Snow and Ice Data Center states: "Over most of the past century, the Arctic Oscillation alternated between its positive and negative phases. Starting in the 1970s, however, the oscillation has tended to stay in the positive phase, causing lower than normal arctic air pressure and higher than normal temperatures in much of the United States and northern Eurasia." [http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/patterns/arctic_oscillation.html] The following figures show: Left: winter (DJF) sea-level pressure (SLP) averaged over the period 1900-2001. The AO index refers to opposing atmospheric pressure patterns in northern middle and high latitudes. The blue areas are low pressure areas. Right: modern distribution of permafrost in the Northern Hemisphere. Continuous permafrost is shown by dark blue colour. Discontinuous and sporadic permafrost is shown by light blue color. Red and black arrows show main surface air flow (warm and cold, respectively) as generated by the 20th century pattern of SLP. The overall wind systems set up by the average winter sea-level pressure appears to represent one of several controls on the present distribution of permafrost in the northern hemisphere. [http://www.climate4you.com/NAOandAO.htm] An article in Science Daily: "Winds, Ice Motion Root Cause Of Decline In Sea Ice, Not Warmer Temperatures" [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041220010410.htm] states: "Extreme changes in the Arctic Oscillation in the early 1990s -- and not warmer temperatures of recent years -- are largely responsible for declines in how much sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean, with near record lows having been observed during the last three years, University of Washington researchers say. It may have happened more than a decade ago, but the sea ice appears to still "remember" those Arctic Oscillation conditions, according to Ignatius Rigor, a mathematician with the UW's Applied Physics Laboratory" NOAA provides updated monthly AO data at: [http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/month_ao_index.shtml] The following figure is from that page. A 2010 paper (Ohashu and Tanaka: "Data Analysis of Recent Warming Pattern in the Arctic", SOLA 2010 Vol 6A [http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sola/6A/SpecialEdition/1/_pdf] ) states: "variability of the global atmosphere, it is shown that both of decadal variabilities before and after 1989 in the Arctic can be mostly explained by the natural variability of the AO not by the external response due to the human activity". The following figure shows monthly AO (from [http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/cmb/teleconnections/ao-f-pg.gif]) although the winter AO (JFM) is more typical as this is the period with stronger influence on the Northern Hemisphere weather. Further information on the Arctic Oscillation can be found at: http://jisao.washington.edu/wallace/ncar_notes/ Daily values of the AO index can be found at: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao_index.html Monthly AO data can be downloaded from: http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.shtml |
AO and European Glaciers "The Health of Glaciers: Recent Changes in Glacier Regime" (Meier et al) [http://www.springerlink.com/content/q00627j170621065/]: "Glacier winter balances in north and central Europe correlate with the Arctic Oscillation" One of the few long-term temperature stations in the Swiss Alps is Saentis – located on the top of a mountain. The following figure shows the annual average temperature anomalies from the NOAA GHCN database. [http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/climgraph.aspx?pltparms=GHCNT100XJanDecI188020080900110AR64606680000x] The following figure superimposes the Saentis temperatures from above on the AO shown previously. The Alps regime shift observed in the 1988 time frame is clearly correlated with the abrupt change in the AO. |
The AO had a regime shift in 1988/89, examined in detail along with the AO-solar connections. See: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/AO_Regime.htm |
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a major mode of atmospheric variability in the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in winter. The NAO index is calculated based on the difference between the normalized sea level pressures over Gibraltar (or Portugal, or the Azores) (subtropical high) and Southwest Iceland (polar low). The following figure shows the winter NAO since 1823 based on Gibraltar. [http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/~timo/projpages/nao_update.htm] The following figure shows the winter NAO since 1864 based on Lisbon, Portugal and Reykjavik, Iceland. [http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/cas/jhurrell/Docs/naobook.ch1.pdf] Updated NAO data can be found at http://ioc3.unesco.org/oopc/state_of_the_ocean/atm/nao.php The different phases of the NAO result in different winter conditions over the North Atlantic, with the following general trends [http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/pi/NAO/]:
The following figures show the general patterns of the NAO positive and negative modes (from NOAA Airmap [http://airmap.unh.edu/background/nao.html], which provides a comprehensive explanation of NAO effects on the eastern US). |
Studies of NAO Effects An article in Science Daily ("North Atlantic Warming Tied To Natural Variability", Jan 2008 [http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080103144416.htm]) reported on a Duke University study of North Atlantic temperatures and their relation to the NAO. "while the North Atlantic Ocean's surface waters warmed in the 50 years between 1950 and 2000, the change was not uniform. In fact, the subpolar regions cooled at the same time that subtropical and tropical waters warmed. "It is premature to conclusively attribute these regional patterns of heat gain to greenhouse warming," … water in the sub-polar ocean --- roughly between 45 degrees North latitude and the Arctic Circle --- became cooler as the water directly exchanged heat with the air above it. …NOA[sic] -driven winds served to "pile up" sun-warmed waters in parts of the subtropical and tropical North Atlantic south of 45 degrees" … "We suggest that the large-scale, decadal changes...associated with the NAO are primarily responsible for the ocean heat content changes in the North Atlantic over the past 50 years," the authors concluded." Studies have found correlations between NAO and Indian monsoon. The study "Interannual and long-term variability in the North Atlantic Oscillation and Indian summer monsoon rainfall" (Dugam, Kakade and Verma, Indian Institue of Tropical Meteorology, 1997 [http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=2068184]) investigated 108 years of NAO / monsoon data and found that: "The decadal scale analysis reveals that the NAO during winter (December-January-February) and spring (March-April-May) has a statistically significant inverse relationship with the summer monsoon rainfall of Northwest India, Peninsular India and the whole of India. The highest correlation is observed with the winter NAO. The NAO and Northwest India rainfall relationship is stronger than that for the Peninsular and whole of India rainfall on climatological and sub-climatological scales." A study of the multi-decadal low frequency oscillation (LFO) of the NAO [http://denali.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~igor/research/pdf/50yr_web.pdf] stated: "observations over the past 135 years showed that the recent decrease in ice extent in the Nordic Seas is within the range of natural variability since the 18th century. A combination of century- and half-a-century-long data records and model integrations leads us to conclude that the natural low-frequency oscillation (LFO) exists and is an important contributor to the recent anomalous environmental conditions in the Arctic. There is evidence that the LFO has a strong impact on ice and ocean variability". A NASA JPL study (NASA Finds Sun-Climate Connection in Old Nile Records March, 2007 [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1319]) stated: "Direct measurements of light energy emitted by the sun, taken by satellites and other modern scientific techniques, suggest variations in the sun's activity influence Earth's long-term climate. However, there were no measured climate records of this type until the relatively recent scientific past. The authors suggest that variations in the sun's ultraviolet energy cause adjustments in a climate pattern called the Northern Annular Mode, which affects climate in the atmosphere of the Northern Hemisphere during the winter. At sea level, this mode becomes the North Atlantic Oscillation, a large-scale seesaw in atmospheric mass that affects how air circulates over the Atlantic Ocean. During periods of high solar activity, the North Atlantic Oscillation's influence extends to the Indian Ocean." A study of the NAO climate effects on barn swallow breeding ("North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) effects of climate on the relative importance of first and second clutches in a migratory passerine bird") http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118942055/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0 "The size of first clutches increased with increasing NAO values, and clutch size increased during the study period. [1970-2000] … in years with high NAO index values first broods were relatively larger than second broods compared to years with low NAO values. Similarly, the breeding success of first relative to second broods was larger in years with high NAO index values compared to years with low NAO values" The following figure shows sea surface temperature superimposed on NAO (top) and sea ice thickness (bottom) for the Labrador Sea. [http://www-paoc.mit.edu/paoc/papers/atlantic.pdf] |
NAO and European Glaciers A study of "Midlatitude Forcing Mechanisms for Glacier Mass Balance" (Reichert, Bengtsson and Oerlemans, Journal of Climate, 2000) [http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/fileadmin/publikationen/Ex72.pdf] states: "The observed strong positive glacier mass balances within 1980-1995 can thus be seen as a consequence of the corresponding observed persistent positive phase of the NAO within this time period. This mechanism will probably also be valid for other maritime Norwegian glaciers which have also shown strong positive mass balances within this period [IASH, 1999]." The following figure shows the correlation between the NAO index (black) and the Nigardsbreen Glacier (Norway) mass balance (green). The same study concludes: "Glacier mass balances of Alpine glaciers have been strongly negative during the decade 1980-1990. The average mass balance value has been -0.65 mwe [Haeberli et al., 1999] resulting in an estimated loss of 10 to 20% of ice volume since 1980 [Haeberli and Beniston, 1998]. The results of the present study indicate that this loss of mass balance can (at least as has been demonstrated for Rhonegletscher) partly be explained by the strong positive phase of the NAO within this time period." |
When the polar vortex weakens, the polar jet stream slows and meanders in a form that allows the extension of low pressure lobes much farther to the south. These can become stationary for days and block the normal circulation of the atmosphere. The negative AO/NAO is associated with a slowed polar vortex and polar jet stream. When the jet stream slows, it meanders in a waveform pattern (Rossby waves). The general effect is illustrated below (fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby_wave). And a polar view (from https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic-art/38479/106997/Rossby-wave-patterns-over-the-North-Pole-depicting-the-formation) showing the blocking pattern in (c) The following figure illustrates the wave breaking to create the blocking pattern (fromhttp://www.apcc21.org/images/Activities/seminar/2006/APCC06-Tanaka.pdf) "Blocking has a lot to do with the severity of winter weather in the Northern Hemisphere, and the AO has a strong ability to control blocking. To quantify this control, we define a blocking event as a week or more of excess pressure in the midtroposphere together with an anticyclone at the surface. … blocking occurs preferentially during the low AO phase in Alaska, the North Atlantic, and Russia." [http://www.jisao.washington.edu/wallace/ncar_notes/] Barriopedro et al ("Solar modulation of Northern Hemisphere winter blocking", Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol.113, 2008 [http://idl.ul.pt/davidbarriopedro/2008%20Barriopedro%20et%20al.pdf]) found that "Solar activity modulates the preferred locations for blocking occurrence over both Oceans, causing local frequency responses therein. Over the Pacific Ocean high/low solar activity induces an enhanced blocking activity over its eastern/western part. Atlantic blocking occurrence increases for both (high/low) solar phases, with a spatial dependent response confined to western/eastern Atlantic. … Low solar Atlantic blocking episodes last longer, are located further east and become more intense than high solar blocking events." Examples of blocking causing unusual weather (which alarmists then blame on global warming): Russia Heat Wave 2010: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/Russia2010.htm U.S. Cold and Snow January 2011: http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/USsnow_Jan2011.htm |
More information on the AO and NAO can also be found at: www.climate4you.com/NAOandAO.htm |


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Scientology disaster response team acknowledged for their unconditional help.
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